By Corinna Mullin , Nada Trigui and Azadeh Shahshahani May 1, 2019 Decolonizing Justice in Tunisia monthlyreview.org/2019/05/01/decolonizing-justice-in-tunisia/ Corinna Mullin was a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Political Economy/International Politics at the University of Tunis for five years. She now teaches at the New School and John Jay in New York. She tweets @MullinCorinna . Nada Trigui is an International Political Economy graduate from the University of Tunis. She cofounded the Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and was involved in the Manish Msameh campaign. She tweets @TrNada . Azadeh Shahshahani is the Legal & Advocacy Director at Project South and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She tweets @ashahshahani . The authors would like to thank Ujju Aggarwal, Max Ajl, Samar Al-Bulushi, Moutaa Amine El Waer, Brahim Rouabah, and Hèla Yousfi for their help on the article, as well as Noah Lapidus for his research on people’s tribunals in Brazil and the Philippines. Building on decades of struggle, the January 2011 Tunisian uprising triggered a wave of popular revolt that spread across North Africa and West Asia. If the Tunisian transition was exceptional in its relative peacefulness and pacted nature, it was less so in regard to its susceptibility to external influence. Though more tangible in the cases of other regional states marked by externally driven or supported instability, violence, and destruction, Tunisia’s so-called transition was also conditioned by Western intervention and complex geopolitical entanglements. Western-dominated institutions and states seized upon the haziness produced by the uprising to more fully penetrate Tunisia’s political economy and further neocolonial capitalist development, despite fierce and persistent resistance. This article will be released in full online May 13, 2019. Current subscribers: please log in to view this article . Tunisia became the focus of a celebrated project of transitional justice, which is now the globally mandated method of reconciling victims and perpetrators following a nonrevolutionary regime change. Tunisia was the first country to establish an entire ministry charged with overseeing the establishment of the transitional-justice processes, which was 1 1/19